In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

And Republicans.

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

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The Tom Woods Show.

Welcome, everybody.

It's Tuesday, September 16th, 2014.

And today we welcome back to the show, Michael Humor, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We talked to Professor Humor earlier this year about his book, The Problem of Political Authority, An Exam of the right to coerce and the duty to obey.

So we're having him back today to continue that conversation.

Today we're going to talk about still more arguments in favor of government.

In particular, the key argument advanced by Thomas Hobbes.

And then we're going to do something extremely unfashionable, and that is to look at some of the problems of democracy,

problems that the vast majority of people do not even perceive, but which exist all the same.

Mike Humor, welcome back to the show.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

I'm very pleased to have you on a second time, because last time I was so happy with how our

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